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A new SBPC-Data for Progress poll reveals that more than 6-in-10 likely voters support extending President Biden’s pause on student loan payments, including 70 percent of Black likely voters and 76 percent of Latino and Latina likely voters.

As advocates continue to push the Biden Administration to extend the pause on student loan payments, it is crucial that we recognize how ending the payment pause will uniquely impact Black and Latino borrowers.

The SBPC and Data for Progress released a new tracking poll revealing that 63 percent of likely voters support action by the federal government to cancel some or all student debt for all borrowers.

The SBPC and Data for Progress released a new poll revealing that 69 percent of likely voters support President Biden’s continued pause on student loan payments, including majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

Today, a group of 104 diverse advocacy organizations, including American Federation of Teachers (AFT), National Education Association (NEA) and UnidosUS, sent a letter to the Biden administration, calling on U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to reform broken, dysfunctional income-driven repayment (IDR) programs with the creation of an IDR restoration...

By Claire Torchiana | January 25, 2022 Earlier this month, a bipartisan group of 39 state attorneys general settled lawsuits and investigations against Navient, one of the nation’s largest student loan lenders and servicers. The settlement is a meaningful step forward in a years-long attempt to hold one of the...

"The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) released a report on Thursday, January 20 identifying more than 2.6 million people who collectively owe around $50 billion."

An SBPC investigation uncovers a decades-long scheme by the student loan industry aimed at blocking borrowers from accessing their full rights in bankruptcy—all so that these companies could pad their profits. 

Based on a comprehensive review of securities filings, student loan promissory notes, and government data, SBPC estimates that $50 billion in so-called private student loans taken on by more than 2.6 million borrowers, are, in fact, eligible to be discharged in bankruptcy despite representations to the contrary by lenders and...

"The SBPC, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy group for student borrowers, estimates that a total of about $50 billion of such loans are out there, and they may be as easy to cancel in bankruptcy as credit card debt or other consumer loans."